The Korrect way to share audio collection

[Mark Kretschmann]

On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Gleb Litvjak<blaster999 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been using Amarok for several years now, and am very happy with it.
> Some time ago I installed a small Atom-based PC to serve as a NAS and a test
> server, and moved all my audio files there. After that I mounted the NFS share
> and let Amarok rescan it on all my boxes. However, this aproach is sub-
> optimal.
>
> Recently I began to look at other ways to share my collection. My first thought
> was DAAP. I installed and configured mt-daapd on my server, and it showed in
> Amarok, however it only allowed to play MP3 files (so no OGG and FLAC, which is
> a no-go for me) - which is strange, as I have read that it can serve
> untranscoded FLACs to the clients that understand them.
>
> My next try was Ampache. I managed to set it up, and it showed in Amarok,
> however, I couldn't make the FLACs play at all (MP3 and OGG played fine). Seems
> that Ampache tried to encode FLACs to OGGs (which I do not want, as 100mbps is
> more than enough for FLAC transfer) and failed. So, another "no" here.
>
> My question is: what is the correct way to share my collection between several
> machines running Amarok?

I'd recommend Ampache, it works beautifully for me with Amarok 2.
Dunno about the FLAC issue though, sorry.

Talk to "vollmer" on IRC, he's Karl Vollmer, the main developer behind
Ampache. He will know best. You can find him in #ampache on Freenode.

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Mark Kretschmann
Amarok Developer
www.kde.org - amarok.kde.org